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The wife wanted me to take a break from my chairs to put up some wall shelves for her real quick. Now sure I could have gotten some cheap particle board wall shelves with a cheap veneer, from an unpronounceable Chinese brand name that will cease to exist in 3 weeks just to be replaced by another amalgamation of letters that mean nothing. But damnit, what's the fun in that?!
It took some doing, but eventually we agreed on some nice steel J Brackets as the hangers. Then the family headed out to the lumber yard 2 weeks ago to pick out some rustic walnut at roughly $5.50 a board foot. If you've read any of my post by now, it's a fairly straight forward process from there. Mill, cut, glue up panels, sand, finish. Although I was especially proud of the panel glue ups this time, as I did my best job yet matching grain and wood color such that they are barely perceptible. Also, to add just a smidgen of craftsmanship, I took out a slot in the back of edge of each shelf out for the back of the J-Bracket to sit in, and rounded the front edge where the J-Bracket comes up so that it sits perfectly flush. This brings the shelf about a 1/4" closer to the wall, and looks quite nice IMHO. I just finished with a plain danish oil, and gave it a light once over with some #0000 steel wool after letting it cure for a week.
Finished product. Not bad for 2 weeks. We're thinking of maybe adding a few more around the room.
Very nice. I always forget about j-hooks; they've fallen a bit out of failure for mainstream production, but they're so much nicer-looking than the standard L- or Z-bracket.
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